Horder’s painting is universal in its subjectiveness. He draws on the natural world with an energy and automatism that creates a distinctly unique and brooding oeuvre. Whilst the paintings speak of our world or indeed the heavens, they are not necessarily about a physical space or place. Rather, they are a netherworld that we inhabit as part of being human, with all its humanist traits of insecurity and obscured truths. This is a vision of tainted beauty and earthly delights. 

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Ralph Hobbs, 2017